Lt Gen. O’Reilly speaks about aspects of America’s current BMD deployments and the testing involved in deploying these systems.
Author: Touraj Riazi
Touraj is an accomplished multi-lingual professional with 5 years of strategy, policy, stakeholder engagement, communication, issue, and project management experience across diverse sectors in areas like transformative technologies, digital and data transformation, diplomacy, defence and global economics. As a graduate of Sciences Po, he is committed to learning more, developing public-private partnerships and applying his creativity, intellectual excellence, and passion for technology towards improving our shared digital future, as demonstrated when advising Ontario’s President of the Treasury Board, Minister Responsible for Digital and Data Transformation, Minister of Finance and as a manager for Ontario's first A. Minister Responsible for Digital Government.
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